A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.